I'm only now getting around to reading it. As great as it is to go back and relive the 2004 season game-by-game, I have to say that so far I'm pretty disappointed. Unless people want to discuss it, I won't go into my reasons here -- I imagine I'm in a pretty small minority. However, one thing really jumped out at me. Page 264: "I'm in Boston (exploring possibilities for a musical play with John Mellencamp)..."
That may be the most frightening thing Steven King has ever written.
Well considering when I read it, I full expected it to suck, I actually ended up not despising it.
ReplyDeleteLike you said, it was fun to "recap" the season. At first there was far to much O'Nan, who I half wanted to hate (he brings his glove to the games and wears a Nomar jersey at age 40) but sometimes I liked him for his unbridled enthusiasm and optimism - making comments like "in the unlikely event the Sox sweep the Yanks this weekend, we can cut the lead to 6 games. " When there is, of course, no evidence to suggest a sweep is likely.
But there were definitely times that annoyed the hell out of me.
For me the good in the book outweighed the bad. Plus I was jealous that they were able to get all the good seats for the games that are mostly out of reach for the normal (is there such a thing?) fans.
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